An active role for government and public sector utilities is thus a far more important condition for developing renewable energy than any expensive system of public subsidies for markets or private investors.

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In her keynote speech to the SNP conference, Nicola Sturgeon announced that the Scottish Government will set up an energy company by 2021, while residents of Ulva have been given permission to buy their island SCOTLAND’S FIRST MINISTER has announced that the Scottish Government will set up a publicl...

renationalisation is on the horizon, here's hoping that the penny has dropped for the middle/lower class who voted tory the last two times and they don't vote for them the next time, but I shan't hold my breath, we're so good at shooting ourselves in the foot and not much else

This country operates on a culture of greed. Politicians, large Corporations, the super wealthy have ripped us off big time on a menu of broken promises and self-serving greed. They couldn't care less about the welfare of the many the hunger of the poor, the rough sleepers, the homeless. Change is gonna happen and they know it that's why Jeremy Corbyn is the subject of continual gross vilification and fabricated lies because he and his team will make it happen.

People need to wake up and realise that there is no accountability in these organisations no audit no regulation that makes a difference and every time they switch on their light have a drink of water or go for a ride on the train they are exporting jobs and wealth from this country...simples.

Power for the People

Energy connects us to communities all over the world. We share a common climate, and to safeguard it, we need to re-common what’s ours – water, air, land, food, our time and labour and freedom of movement.

68% of the public want the energy companies to be publicly run. Whether we need local renewable energy or a national drive to reduce fuel poverty, it doesn’t make sense for our future to be dictated by Big Six profits

Citizens [must] take back control over electricity generation so that the switch to renewables can be made without delay, while any profits generated go not to shareholders but back into supporting hungry public services.

An active role for government and public sector utilities is thus a far more important condition for developing renewable energy than any expensive system of public subsidies for markets or private investors.

We can’t just fight fires and win incremental gains, we need systemic change. The energy we use, its source, its ownership and its distribution needs to come under democratic control, and it needs to be clean and renewable.

Rather than letting us be held to ransom by the Big Six bullies, let’s take energy under the democratic control of the British people and make sure it works for the interests of all of us, not the money-grabbing shareholders.

A publicly owned energy sector would be far cheaper than the existing privatised regime, because governments can borrow at much lower interest rates. Revenues from energy would then go to the public purse rather than private profit.

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